Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Bundled payments in health care have gained favor because they can reduce costs and help improve outcomes. In essence, episodic bundles cover the cost of a patient’s care from start to finish—all the procedures, devices, tests, drugs and services a patient will need for, say, a knee replacement or back surgery.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. Working together, finance and strategy executives can forge better links between resource allocation and strategic goals. Embracing the long-term view. There are two reasons for this.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Sometimes the endless discussion about burnout in health care creates its own form of burnout — a sense of hopelessness about being able to stop an epidemic. Unfortunately, the health care environment adds stresses and rewards that are external to the care of patients and that demand a qualitatively different response.

Health Care 8

Health Care Stress Environment Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The focus is on the near term. Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Insurance 9

Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. But clinical and nonclinical staff at the Rotterdam Eye Hospital have improved patient care and raised staff morale at a very modest cost: 10 minutes a day and a special deck of cards. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Stress Morale Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C.,

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

We face a public health emergency. Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. That is, we are after real shared value.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

Engaging Leader

APRIL 25, 2014

Many companies are spending huge amounts of health care dollars paying for treatment of medical conditions caused primarily by poor food choices. Many companies are spending huge amounts of health care dollars paying for treatment of medical conditions caused primarily by poor food choices.

Health Care 198

Health Care ROI Education Long-term 198

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Nearly everyone in health care wants to cut waste and reduce unnecessary costs — until the conversation turns to advanced chronic illness and end-of-life care. Fears about “pulling the plug on granny,” no matter how ill she may be, have slowed progress toward value-based care. Insight Center.

Health Care 9

Health Care Sharpe Document Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

A very different result may be possible, however, as more states and localities authorize the construction of roads that are privately owned and financed, or even sell off existing roads and other infrastructure in order to relieve their own budgetary pressures. The regressive nature of the charges only complicates the politics.

Politics 8

Politics Health Care Budgeting Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

How can the health care system adapt to bring that kind of specialized experience to more families? My concern is that I don’t think children’s health is a national priority right now. There’s a lot of evidence that supports early intervention and avoiding long-term costs.

CEO 8

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

What's standing in the way of better health care just might be HMOs — whose overweening concern with profit means that Americans pay the most among developed nations for health care, but have seen the smallest gains in life expectancy (among other measures that matter). What's the lasting human outcome?

Health Care 18

Health Care Long-term Finance Education 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. Martin’s Point Health Care-Bangor.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Using probability, it is easy to see that if you have a large enough population doing things in a mediocre way for a long enough time, you'll always get some streaks — think monkeys, typewriters, and Shakespeare. Back in 2008, Steve Strogatz and I were interested in sports, not the world of finance. But is this true?

Management 14

Management Fashion Long-term Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy. Fewer than 20% of payments to health care providers and their suppliers are done digitally, for example.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

For example, Boston’s program includes job placements at private-sector employers across a wide range of industries, including finance, health care, life sciences, and education. Here is what we’ve found: Short-term program impacts. Long-term program outcomes.

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Short-term Participative Long-term Career 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

This typically holds true for the highest-ranking and most dynamic slices of industry, whether financial services, professional sports, health care or high tech. Clawbacks are an essential technique for balancing long-term business health against short-term bonus wealth.

Incentives 14

Incentives Committee Banking Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We have positioned ourselves not just as a productivity-driving force but also as an agent of society by investing in education and health care for our people. A winning strategy is the strategy which cares about not only direct consumption-linked factors but also societal needs such as environmental and health concerns.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

In their piece, they observe the following: In the short term, however, the current team might actually outperform in the absence of its mercurial and stubborn mentor. And perhaps they haven't for a long time. These moves would likely horrify Jobs; he would see them as muddying the user experience and diluting the Apple brand.

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

In the aftermath of Dick Fuld’s refusal to agree with the terms proposed by the government to help bail it out, his net worth was estimated to have collapsed from close to $1 billion to about $100 million. Economy Finance' Consider Lehman Brothers, whose collapse was the trigger for broader sectorial travails.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

In the aftermath of Dick Fuld’s refusal to agree with the terms proposed by the government to help bail it out, his net worth was estimated to have collapsed from close to $1 billion to about $100 million. Economy Finance' Consider Lehman Brothers, whose collapse was the trigger for broader sectorial travails.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. In academic terms, we would put it this way: extrinsic motivation causes people to distort the truth regarding goal attainment. Contingent pay leads to cooking the books.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

We prefer the more neutral term “machine intelligence” over “AI.”). Most IT groups think in terms of applications and data. Next up will be finance, transportation, and agriculture because of the volume of data available and their sheer economic value.

Software 8

Software Transportation Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

It means instead of only having companies at the fat head , there are tens of thousands of smaller companies fulfilling demand along the long tail. The only negative effect this rise of the long tail should have on venture capitalists is that they need to get better at filtering the increased noise in the system.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Term loans , SBA loans , lines of credit and invoice financing are just a few of the options available to small business owners. As a startup, your finances will likely be very thin as is. How to Start a Home Health Care Business In the home health care business, there are medical and non-medical home care businesses.

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Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

It means instead of only having companies at the fat head , there are tens of thousands of smaller companies fulfilling demand along the long tail. The only negative effect this rise of the long tail should have on venture capitalists is that they need to get better at filtering the increased noise in the system.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Underlying the program were two critical premises: First, that unhappy patients often sit in silence, and that giving them a voice will reveal unsuspected opportunities for improvement; and second, that patient experience and quality of care are linked. The doctor-patient relationship has long been sacrosanct. Insight Center.

System 8

System Quality Long-term Short-term 8

Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2012

The squeeze on middle America promises to be long lasting without change. . This low-income consumer is part of a long-term P&G study tracking several consumers over time to gauge how sentiment is evolving as the economic slowdown wears on.

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Class Price Bottom-up Health Care 110

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The squeeze on middle America will be long lasting. . This low-income consumer is part of a long-term P&G study tracking several consumers over time to gauge how sentiment is evolving as the economic slowdown wears on. a year between 2001 and 2007 and plunged by 26.2% in the following two years. (P&G),

Class 102

Class Health Care Long-term Budgeting 102

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

For example, recruitment, development, and retention is particularly important in the knowledge intensive health care sector. ” Your investor reporting systems may soon be required to answer a call to meet these reporting standards.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

As health care reform evolves, large public institutions that offer a health safety net have some advantages over privately owned enterprises. Those are all assets in an era of health care reform. I head one of these institutions: Dallas-based Parkland Health and Hospital Systems. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As refugees they have the same rights and obligations — excepting only the right to vote — as the citizens of their host countries and they have much to offer in economic terms: many are highly trained and possess much-needed skills.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing NGO Marketing Skills 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Everyone knows that dentists, nurses, social workers and respiratory therapists are all health care professionals. See consulting as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. Professional rivalry with other consultants, resulting in the ‘I can do that’ syndrome.

Consultative 59

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

“Paying for value” is one of the most overused tropes in health care today. To those who pay the bills — employers, health plans, and even the government — value often means paying as little as possible for services. Tell us what health-care content you’d like to see more of from HBR.

Health Care 8

Health Care Short-term Insurance Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Many adult health care outcomes are shaped in childhood. Current models of pediatric primary care do little to address these “non-medical” causes and consequently have been largely ineffective in preventing adult disease. Reforming primary care pediatrics therefore has great potential for improving overall U.S.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Another 30% prefer a salesperson who earns their trust by making them feel comfortable, because they will take care of the customer’s long-term needs. The fashion and finance verticals had the highest propensity to select the best-known, top-of-the-line product, while manufacturing and health care had the lowest. #4:

Price 8

Price Health Care Committee Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

College graduates have long earned more than workers with only a high school diploma. These losses were offset by growth in higher-value-added jobs in consulting, finance & insurance, and computer systems design. Half of this job growth came in health care, government, retail, and construction. to emerging economies.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12